Backup assignments

Additional information

Graduated from Kachin Higher Military Air
School of Pilots, 1994; graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy,
1998; Colonel, Russian Air Force (Ret. mid 2012); was selected as cosmonaut on
28.07.1997 (TsPK-12);
OKP (cosmonaut basic training) until 11/1999; hobbies:
yachting, tennis, autotourism, computers, sport games, theater, museums, and
books; left the cosmonaut group on September 23, 2016 because he was elected to
the Duma.